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The other day, I walked to a little restaurant next door to the place I work at and in the parking lot saw this bedliner clad Jeep. The olive drab paint job is indeed bedliner. How cool is that!

I realize this is not something special. This Jeep’s owner decided to treat this vehicle to an iron clad paint job that will quite frankly last forever. Truth is to be told, I did the same thing (except in black) to the entire underside of bowtie6.

Think about it, this is one hell of a cool idea! I walked up to the vehicle and touched it – the surface was far from “smooth”. It was quite rough but looked awesome. So much so, the material also covered all the emblems in such a way they could easily be read.

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This past Saturday, I got together with some good friends and spent a few hours shooting clay pigeons. We had a nice collection of shotguns: from vintage models to state-of-the-art; from 20ga to 12ga.

I took two vintage shotguns that have been in my family for a very long time. My grandfather’s 16 gauge double-barrel and my Dad’s 12 gauge pump. About 35 years ago (damn that’s a long time) I took it upon myself to dismantle the stock and fore-end and sand it down. At the time, I had a distant relative that owned a wood-shop, and he showed me what to do. Three and a half decades later, the gun still looks great.

Today’s featured image was taken by a drone. My friend Doc has an awesome drone: the drone has its own remote control unit including a mount for an iPhone, self compensates, is GPS aware, the works. As the drone flies, video is transmitted and one can see images real-time on the iPhone. Very impressive stuff. Oh and if you look close enough, that is me next to the open door on the red Chevy pickup.

I have great respect for our 2nd Amendment and this past Saturday I was reminded yet again of how precious this right really is…

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

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So far it has been an interesting week… About a month ago, you might have noticed performance issues with this blog. For example, pages were slow to render.

I called my ISP (Danica’s prior sponsor) and things did not go well. After much back-and-forth, they agreed to “move” the site to a less crappy server. Good enough, things worked as expected but this was short lived. This week the problems returned.

As it turns out, the bowtie6 blog was running on sub-par equipment. I was advised that for a price I could “upgrade” to a state-of-the-art SSD based hosting and all would be peachy again. I realize this blog is far from anything of consequence but, hell… I enjoy posting my little stories. I upgraded and after a very painful ordeal my WordPress files have been migrated to a this new gee-whiz server.

Please let me know if you find any broken links or have any “issues”. This new plan I bought is supposed to be the shit so if anything is not working properly, please let me know. Gotta love technology! 🙂

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It is with a heavy heart I write today’s post. Today we lost a true hero – the last of the Mercury Seven – John Glenn.

I suppose I am just “old” but the Mercury Seven represent for me a time when we as a nation and society traveled through time’s finest hour.

Godspeed John Glenn… May you travel well… Godspeed…

Just imagine the stories these glorious seven are sharing now…

Astronaut John Glenn photographed in space by an automatic sequence motion picture camera during his flight on “Friendship 7.” Glenn was in a state of weightlessness traveling at 17,500 mph as this picture was taken.

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My friend Jeff sent me this photo just a few minutes after leaving work yesterday, November 22nd. I suppose this is as good an example of “necessity being the mother of invention” as any…

Interesting how mopeds are becoming more and more prevalent in our busy streets. The sad part about this is that these transportation conveyances are so non-regulated. Then again, this is why they are so easy to acquire and to ride. Catch 22 for sure.

Don’t take me wrong, I am not scorning folks driving these machines on city streets and highways but some of these folks certainly go to extremes at the expense of their own (and others) safety. And adding insult to injury with no regard to basic laws and driving conduct; ie., driving in the left lane, hogging the road or hauling a keg of beer, etc.

While on the subject of mopeds… I took this photo several weeks ago. It shows two extremes in transportation – a sign of our times. On the left a fully loaded $60k Ford pickup and on the right another moped. Two chariots providing the same basic concept – moving from point “A” to point “B” – but with different levels of safety, comfort, status, and the list goes on.

Finally, a short story on the silver high-dollar truck shown in the picture: The truck was a “loaner” given to a co-worker by a local Ford dealership Turns out several months ago my friend had bought one of the new Mustangs with the V6 engine. Said Mustang developed a voracious “appetite” for engine oil and eventually started making strange noises. The dealer took the engine apart, put it back together and that yielded more strange noises. After weeks that turned into months the good folks at FOMOCO did like Tammy Wynette standing by her man and in this case, stood by their steed: they sent a brand new crate engine replacement.

All is well now after the engine transplant and my friend is back on the road enjoying his Mustang. I guess this must have been a bad omen though… FOMOCO has ceased production of the V6 engine Mustang…

So happy Thanksgiving 2016 to you all. I for one have much to be thankful for and with much optimism that America will be made Great Again.